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The promise in our greenbacks carries with it an ultimate obligation to pay the silver dollar whose chink is so familiar in the commerce of the world.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The promise in our greenbacks carries with it an ultimate obligation to pay the silver dollar whose chink is so familiar…”
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Sumner asserts that greenbacks carry an obligation to ultimately pay in silver dollars.
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